Andrew Mcconachie - Technical And Policy Specialist at ICANN

Andrew Mcconachie

Technical And Policy Specialist at ICANN

Randstad, Netherlands

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Andrew Mcconachie is a Technical and Policy Specialist with 14+ years bridging hands-on networking engineering and Internet governance, currently working at ICANN. He combines deep UNIX and protocol-level expertise—packet generation, TLS parsing contributions to dpkt, IP routing, multicast and MPLS—with policy work around name/number space management. His background spans vendor engineering, government privacy tech at the FTC, and deployment advocacy for IETF technologies at the Internet Society, informed by an MIMS focused on technology and public policy from UC Berkeley. Andrew also builds niche tooling like hexcap, reflecting a long-standing habit of prototyping protocol and capture utilities that blend sysadmin, security and developer perspectives.

14 years of coding experience

11 years of employment as a software developer

Master's of Information Management Studies, Technology and Public Policy, Internet Governance, Master's of Information Management Studies, Technology and Public Policy, Internet Governance at University of California, Berkeley - School of Information

Bachelors, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelors, Computer Software Engineering at James Madison University

English, Dutch

Github Skills (7)

packet-parsing10

ssl10

tls1210

python10

network-protocol10

tls1310

testing8

Programming languages (9)

C#ShellC++CRustMakefilePHPHTML

Github contributions (5)

kbandla/dpkt

Nov 2016 - Sep 2017

fast, simple packet creation / parsing, with definitions for the basic TCP/IP protocols

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:16 commits, 5 PRs, 22 comments in 9 months

Contributions summary:Andrew primarily focused on implementing TLS (Transport Layer Security) parsing and handling within the `dpkt` library. Their work involved adding functionality to parse TLS extensions, specifically for client and server hello messages, and incorporating a `TLSCertificate` class. The contributions extended to defining `TLS` and `TLSRecord` classes. Additional commits included adding tests for the newly developed TLS and certificate classes.

pythonospfnfvwiresharkpacket-capture

smutt/perf_root

Mar 2020 - Jun 2023

Contributions:92 pushes, 1 branch, 8 comments in 3 years 3 months

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